- Overcome
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- Nov 07, 2020
Work Quotes
Quotes on the meaning of work.
Several quotes here describe work as a solitary process, one that takes real effort to protect from distraction, while others connect a person's politics directly to the character of their work. Related reading includes Growth Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
I have the inability to stop thinking and switch off from work at night, which causes a lot of sleeplessness.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone said, 'Jon, we need $250 million a year from now and we can make a dramatic breakthrough for ovarian cancer,' I'd have $250 million in two months. You just work day and night if the cause in your heart is justified.
- Apple
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still haven't heard anything from Apple about my hacks. There is a tool based on my work reverse-engineering Apple's FairPlay called jhymn that's been hosted on a U.S. server for over a year and nothing has happened.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have children, you realize how easy it is to not see them fully, and perhaps miss all those early years. If you are not careful, you can be too absorbed in work, and they will be only too happy to tell you about it later. Being a parent is one of greatest mindfulness practices of all.
- Medicine
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'find it, fix it 'model of medicine doesn't work any more. The U.S. healthcare system is bankrupting the country, bankrolling the insurance companies and exhausting healthcare staff. And despite all that, we are ranked 50th in the world for life expectancy.
- Outside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, 'doesn't play well with others.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as I'm concerned, any work you get is because people have heard other work you've done.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people I choose to work with, I work with because I'm already impressed with them, you know?
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to do a collaboration or some kind of side thing or some soundtrack work. Because I've been doing this for years and years. I'd like to just step out and try something different.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't do television shows caring whether or not the network picks you up. You can only do them enjoying the work, because if you're always on pins and needles about whether you'll be picked up, you'll lose your mind. I learned that the hard way.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basically, a manager's job is to make other people more productive. What's one really good way to do that? Do the work that is getting in their way. Which means find out what kind of important work your developers dislike the most, and do it for them.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most creative work is a process of people passing ideas and inspirations from the past into the future and adding their own creativity along the way.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020